Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...German cinema company. (Producers of The Last Laugh, Variety, Faust, Metropolis...
...Boston audience is the hardest to make laugh of any I have met in years," said Toto, the world's most famous and most popular clown, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "In most places, people laugh at me when I first enter the stage and continue doing so until I leave. However, in Boston, I really have to work to make them even smile...
Metropolis. Ufa, German creators of the masterpieces, Siegfried, The Last Laugh, Variety, have released what they herald as their supreme achievement, Metropolis. It is the name of a futuristic city, built on a gargantuan iron skeleton, with whole communities superimposed upon one another in prismatic vastnesses-the dwelling-place of men who live to slave for their own machines...
...always try to make the people who come to my shows think before they laugh. It's easy enough to get several teams of vaudeville men, a smattering of wise-cracks, and a chorus which isn't particular about the quantity of clothing it sports...
...have always tried, however, to have my shows more than mere spectacles and collections of jokes. I like to make an audience laugh loudly and heartily, but I try also to make it smile. I smile is more closely related to the brain than a laugh is. I want to appeal to that part of a man which makes him smile. It means that the man must make some effort of his own. He can't remain just passive...